Re: Grand List of Indian inventions since the begining of time
by Dreamer <saroman0414@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 11, 2008 at 02:45 PM
On Apr 11, 3:08 pm, "Father India" <fat...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Yes we Indians are smart, enterprising, and always spending our time
> building and improving the world.
>
> Since this list goes back to the begining of Indian history of about
7000
> BC, it took me a LONG time to compile this massive list to inventions
and
> developments that India contributed to the world.
>
> How smug are you arrogant lazy Americans now?
>
> List Begins
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> List Ends
You're a ****ing idiot.
Here are a few.
7000 BC : Domestication of cattle and poultry
7000 BC: Cereal
6000 BC: Granaries
4500 BC: City states and nations
3100 BC: Community drainage systems
3000 BC: Buttons
2500 BC: Dikes for water control
2500 BC: Grid system for streets
2500 BC: The rounded arch
700 BC: Musical notation
400 BC: Binary number system
30 BC: Surgical instruments
2nd century AD: Modern numbers and zero
7th century AD: Chess
13th century AD: Spinning wheel
15th century AD: Power series and calculus
18th century AD: Smallpox inoculation, almost a century before
Jenner's cowpox vaccination became part of Western medicine.